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Good to see a sense of humour

Posted by Tim Malone on Friday 24th August, 2007 No comments

Looking through the news at news.com.au this morning, I found this funny (see the ‘breaking news’ section): It’s good to see a sense of humour in the media. Makes catching up on news all the more fun.

Make it Count – the Howard/Rudd address

Posted by Tim Malone on Monday 13th August, 2007 2 comments

I missed seeing/hearing the Make it Count Howard/Rudd address on Thursday night because I’m in Thailand, but I was sent links today to videos of the night. I’m still trying to download them on our slower Internet connection here, so …

A reason to vote Labor?

Posted by Tim Malone on Wednesday 21st March, 2007 No comments

For the international readers here, an Australian federal election is coming up either later this year or in early 2008. The two candidates for Prime Minister are the incumbent John Howard of the Liberal Party, and Kevin Rudd of the …

AOL releases 6 months worth of search data

Posted by Tim Malone on Wednesday 9th August, 2006 2 comments

Seems like AOL recently released tons of data (657k users worth) from their search engine. I haven’t had a chance to read much about it yet, or read into the data, but it’s 1) bad for those users – privacy …